Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 2 | But David with with respect but David I can just see people 's eyes glazed over right now . |
| 3 | I can just see David doing it |
| 4 | ‘ I can only see things getting worse . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing has changed since the revolution and I can only see things getting worse and worse . |
| 6 | If I wish to maximise my impact on improving human life , I can do so best by putting my effort into activities I know are unlikely to take place otherwise and into small-scale ventures where I can actually see results for my efforts . |
| 7 | I can really see Cadfael rattling round in his black cloak , taking a short cut on his errands round the town . |
| 8 | To the right you can also see Winkle Island — an island in the middle of the road with a statue of a winkle . |
| 9 | The seminar will take place at the Science Museum , where you can also see Mike 's exhibition Running on Air — the Nike Exhibition of Sports Shoe Technology . |
| 10 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 11 | You can still see vestiges in the upper terraces of the early Baroque garden . |
| 12 | Now one of the things that you tend to find is that if you were to ask about groups then people regurgitate all the stuff about groups but with most questions you can usually see links to other parts of the syllabus . |
| 13 | You can often see mats of them , beaded with silver bubbles of oxygen , blanketing the bottoms of ponds . |
| 14 | However , we can already see difficulties for any variation on this approach . |
| 15 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 16 | And what we can then see happening is a hardening of specific judgements into presumptions of classes , based now not only on mixed criteria ( for there are held to be cases of ‘ skilfully executed nonsense ’ or ‘ professionally brilliant hokum ’ as well as of ‘ clumsy art ’ or ‘ raw but authentic artistic power ’ ) but also , and crucially , on criteria which are incompatible with the original delimitation by the nature of the practice . |
| 17 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 18 | We do n't know how many solar systems there are in each galaxy because we can only see stars , not planets , but we earlier used an estimate that there may be 100 billion billion planets in the universe . |
| 19 | Like , how do you know what goes on , like with , dolphins , with whales , with all sorts of species of animals , like we do n't know , well we 're so dense we can only see things like this ! |